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To-do list items as of 04.02.2023: 236 (+5 since last check)

OK, that was awful of me. But honestly, this whole week felt like such a blur, either work or sleep. This was mostly due to stress dropping from IRL events.

Edited by Piterpicher on Feb 4th 2023 at 9:41:18 PM

I've just noticed mod reverts don't show up in Followed Pages, though being added to the Cut List does.

They show up on the edit history of the mod who reverted the page though.

They do, but you have to go out to check the page history to see that, so Followed Pages instead point to the edit before it.

They recently removed Analysis.Humans Are Cthulhu, and while I understand why, I will miss it (reading all the different ways we seem incomprenhensible to other being gave me a laugh).

Edited by KaabiiFan13 on Feb 4th 2023 at 2:49:29 AM

The cut reason isn't quite accurate. I checked the history just now and while the page creator did end up ban evading, they made the page with their original account several years before it was bounced. However, the part about it being from an invalid subpage for a trope page (the contents were apparently originally at Fridge.Humans Are Cthulhu), and since Analysis pages aren't for Fridge Logic, I can see why it was cut.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 4th 2023 at 5:43:03 AM

So, for an unrelated observation, I noticed it's not just deprecated Laconics that have been cutlisted frequently lately. To a lesser extent, YMMV pages that only contain Author's Saving Throw (whose TRS thread deferred cleanup work to its Projects thread) have been getting cutlisted a decent amount, since TRS added a requirement for Word of God and/or Word of Saint Paul confirmation and moved it to Trivia (since the requirement for creator confirmation meant it was no longer subjective).

Edit: Oh, and I thought to mention that because I checked the Cut List before posting it (and cleared it out between this post being made and this new part being added to the post).

Edit from a while later: Well, there have been a lot of Trivia subpages with only Relationship Voice Actor getting cutlisted frequently, but I didn't think to mention that because cutlist requests like that are very common for open TRS threads (Author's Saving Throw's cutlist requets came about due to restrictions added by a TRS thread, but the actual cleanup is being handled by Long-Term Projects, so I mentioned it separately).

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 4th 2023 at 9:11:00 AM

Welp, at least that's the last of the recap laconics I think.

*backs away slowly*

Aw, what happened to the page image with Skeletor? D:

Well it got replaced via thread apparently.

Edit: huh, and on my birthday too.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Feb 5th 2023 at 12:42:53 AM

WhiteWolf4961 and TheWhiteWolf have posted in Ask The Tropers at about the same time but are clearly unrelated accounts, what a coincidence.

Edited by Amonimus on Feb 4th 2023 at 9:49:11 PM

Inside you are two white wolves. Both are asking questions in ATT.

Edited by Excessive-Menace on Feb 4th 2023 at 11:04:05 AM

Thing I discovered just now that annoys me: Elves Versus Dwarves is not Dwarves Versus Elves, and in fact the latter doesn't even exist as a redirect.

Create the redirect you wish to see?

There are a lot of time loop/repeat tropes being featured of late.

Did the admins break time again?

Edited by techno156 on Feb 5th 2023 at 10:54:29 PM

You may want to see this conversation.

Whoever's set the past few trope of the days, thanks for the laughs.

I'm surprised it didn't exist as a redirect; not even as a former redirect that got cut. I made it a redirect because it seems like something that would aid search results for the trope.

I want to un-comment out an example that was commented out before the work was released because it had no citation, but I don't know if that would count as edit warring even though the work is released now and it should be fine.

I just discovered one of the weirdest work pages I've ever seen.

The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show has a very short description, most of the page is occupied by a list of Season 1 episodes and then only one proper trope and a tropeless example that is apparently a placeholder for whenever we make a trope about a character creating a piece of media starring someone they dislike as the villain.

To the Trope Idea Sounding Board? For now, I'll add it to works needing tropes.

Oh hey, nice job on slaying Were Still Relevant Dammit. Always hated that Trope.

Thanks, it always irritated me and after two TRS threads I finally managed to turn it into a disambiguation.

So that trope got split up too?

Yep.

Scroll through the TRS morgue some day; a lot of big tropes have been tackled recently (or just read the Trope Report backlog).